The Brookhaven leader., 1887-06-02
MISCELLANEOUS.

1T is said that the Pennsylvania road in
tends to obtain entrance to New York City
at central point by tunneling the Hudson
river.
A ST. LoUIs paper gives an account of a
gigantic scheme to consolidate ali the cattle
interests of the Northwest and form a com
pany which shall control $4,000, 900 worth
of cattle and grazing lands. 1t seems to
| have originated with the Wyoming Stock
Association of Cheycnne.
FOREIGN bondholders, it is reported, in
tend to bring suit against Jay Gould and
Russell Sage for S5,OUO,000. They had an
agent present at recent examinations be-
fore the Pacific Investigating Committee,
and from admissions by witnesses con-
tlrmation was obtained of suspicious of
Irregularities by which they clam they
We're defrauded
MERRY HAMPTON won the English Derby.
Baron was second and Marley third
A REPORT from Hartford, Ky, of the 25th
says that Prof Klein, the astronomer, had
sighted the temperance of the Star OF
Bethlehem. 1t was quite brilliant and was
in the northwestern heavens This heav-
enly visitor makes its appearance about
every 300 years and astronomers every
where have been looking for it for some
time.
+. c. SMITH, the attorney of the Law and
Order Society, at RridgetOn, n. j., was
terribly beaten by roughs the other night.
His opposition to the hquor dealers was
supposed to have led to the assault upon
him.
A SPECIAL from Key West of the Goth
says: The excitement occasioned few
days ago by the appearance of yellow fever
nv q
maker named Martin, recently from New
York. He was boarding at a restaurant
where the sickness originated. This makes
four cases and three deaths"
THE street car stables at the old Brighton
Station, Cincinnati, burned early on the
morning of the 9th. Great difficulty was
experienced in rescuing the horses and the
destruction of property was said to be very
heavy.
THE Philadelphia clothing cutters lock
out has ended in u compromise.
THE burning of the Theater ComiQue at
Paris proved more disastrous than as first
reported. Over two hundred lives were
lost, the dead being found i'll heaps The
unfortunate ballet suffered most, many of
the girls losing their lives,
AT PaYonia, o., recently ten ears con-
tanning cattle We're totally wrecked and
two cars containing about 1000 live chick
ems were broken into kindling wood The
loss to the company was about S25,O0O
SIXTY villas were burned by an mcen-
diary fire near st. Petersburg, Russia, re-
Gently. The loss amounted to several mil
lion roubles.
THE eleventh biennial session of the gen
eral council of the Reformed Episcopal
Church opened at Philadelphia on the 25th.
PEOPLE who had policies in the old Fargo
Cd. T) Insurance Company held a meeting
recently to investigate the condition of the
company 1t was alleged that the company
had assets OF 5000 to pay liabilities of
S125, 200. 1t was also alleged that Secretary
Lowell, of Chicago, had made away with
$lOO, 600 belonging to the company.
THE Treasury Department has received
information of the prevalence of pleuro-
pneumonia to a somewhat alarming extent
III Scotland among neat cattle. The i'm
port8tion of neat cattle and the hides of
neat cattle from that country has been
prohibited.
THREE cases of smallpox have been dis
covered at Los Angeles, Cal. The victims
were all children.
THE Belt Line stables and seventy fivo
dwellings at Tenth avenue and Fifty-third
street, New York, burned early on the
morning of the 9th. IL was thought that
no lives were lost, but the property de-
stroyed was SAID 10 be over 81, 900, 900.
A CYCLONE recently visited Calcutta
Four ships were reported missing and one
foundered.